Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Mechanics Institute of San francisco
received last year $50, $50, of which So geo
represent the profits of tho industrial exhibit
ton. The institute holds property TO the
value OF $596.5S2.
DRUGGIST in Brattleboro, VT, has con-
| nected every bottle contain ng poison with
the prescription desk by electricity, 30 that
whenever one is tou he'd q sell gives warning
and wakes the compounder up to see, bv Il
second look, whetner he has the bottle he
wants or not,
CIVILIZATION is advancing in Holbrook,
Ari. The citizens of that town are not cay
| ing anything about their churches or schools.
but many OF them point with pride 10 new
So Don which "ls elegantly carpeted and mag
nii emily rugged with rich and quaint ue-
signs OF The Navajo manufacture"
THE Oldest man now in active service in the
New Y ork fire department is Forem an Will
liam Landers, of Engine Company No. Az. in
the annexed district. He is 81 years of age,
and was AZ when ne came into the service Of
the department. A record of twenty years in
the old volunteer companies gave him his
appoin mcnt.
THE German papers allege that many Ger
m an industries are serious affected by over
production. The disastrous competition in
the chemical trade is to be followed by efforts
TO reduce production to The level of the de-
mand. Associations have been formed TO see
ash, saltpetre, soda, Prusslau blue and
gl2uber salts Industries 1t was stated that
the production of soda alone in Germany was
100000 hundred weight in excess of the con-
sumption.
VERMILIoN STATION, MINI. was grlevously
panied az the passage of the high license law,
which compelled the four saloonkeepers of
that place to pay $500 license into the town
treasury. Finally q solution to the veXed
question was found. The four saloonkeel ers
were sworn In as special policemen Of YER
million, and their salaries fixed ut 500 r. year
each. Then they took out their licenses at
5000 each. In this way the village of Vernil-
| ION llcesse5 its salO0nkecpers Ut $lO0 year
each to sell liquor.
OF the three daughters whom Mr.. Longfel-
low has immortalizsd in that lovely poem
"lhe Twilight Hour" Alice alone remains
| unmarried. She lives in the old "Cralgie
House" at Cambridge with her bachelor I'M
| Gle. the Rev. Samuel LOngfellow, now a man
| of some 40 years. Editn LopGfeilOw m arred
| Richard IL. Dana, whose father wrote that
| very popular sea story: Ten Years Before
| the Mast" Anna allegro LJngfeliow, the
| youngest daughter, married, Two years ago
| or more, Joseph q. Thorpe. Jr., a Young Bos-
ton lawyer formerly from Michigan, brother
| of Mrs. Ole Bull.
| A SUBMARINE tunnel is being built under
the river at Port Huron to shorten the dis
lance between Detroit and Buffalo or Toron-
| to. The work is now ready for the horizon
| tai excavation, which will be one niIe in
length, including 2,3l0 feet in the submarine
section. The latter in its lowest part Will be
81 feet below the surface of the river, and
will have diameter of % feet in the clear.
1t was at hrst proposed to construct n two
track tunnel. but careful estimates of the
cost were gwen. showing that the two single
track tunnels could be built cheaper than ono
doube-track tunnel.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, in the closing years
| of his life, attended the Sunday morning SER
vices at the Second Presby teri an church when
he was in Washington, when his health per-
mitted No distance no storm prevented; he
was a all day hearer. The great snow storm
of February, Is46. which closed nearly all the
churches in the country, did not keep MIR.
Adams from the house of God. He was one
of thirteen persons present In the Second
Presbyterian church g. Washington, and re-
turned home through the deep snow on foot
at the close of the service.
THERE appeared recently in the obituary
| columns of the Public Ledger of PhiladeI phia
notices OF the deaths of twenty-five persons,
nine men and sixteen women, who had lived
| to or beyond the advanced age of so years to
| wit: Samuel 5. PancOast, James Meehan
| Margaret SwartZ, 80 years; Sheppard F.
| Houston, John SomeEs Owens, Ann NJ Boul-
den, Rebecca B. Mussleman. 81; Mary Con-
nell. Fannie Il. Wilson. 50; John Davis, SO !;
! Alexander Mcdonald. Catherine Mcdonald
Martha Shortlidge 50; Thomas Thornton,
john ID. Conwell, Saran c. Spain, IS; Henry
| Brown. Rachel r. Johnson, Ann Watkins IS
| Mary Hines. 81; susan A. Deemer. 80; Cathe-
rine Toland, 80; Mary Gross. Mary Coady,
| 95; Kate Roach, IS.
| SPEAKING of Doorkeeper Bassett's post
ponement of the end of the Senate's final SEES
| sion by turning back the hands of the clock
| the Mauch Chunk Democrat remembers that
| Thaddeus stevens received his first nomina-
| zion Tor Congress by the same DEVICE only the
| oil ~ II Rtaa If hi,
| back 1t happened in the Summer of lS4s in
| East Lampeter township, Lancaster cOup V
| at the public house OF Daniel NJ ller, during
| Wing delegate election. The hands of an
| old fashioned house clock were privately
| moved forward twenty minutes-from 80 10
| 10 minutes before @ p. m. That move closed
| the polls twenty minutes before the regular
| time and five voters were ruled out by the
| clock as 1t then stood-ten minutes past g. 1t
| wos the turning point in that township. Had
the clock not been moved A. Herr smith, moi
| Stevens would have been the nominee
WE are told of a strange clock that is said
to have belonged to a Hndoo prince. A
large gong was hung on poles near the dial.
and all about upoa6e ground lay pile of
| artificial human heads. ribs, legs and arms
| The whole number of bones in the nile w as
| equal to the number of bones in twelve ner
feet bodies, but the pile appeared to have
| been thrown together in the greatest copfu-
| sion. When the hands OF the clock indicated
the hour of |, out from the pie crawled first
the number of paris needed to form the frame
| of one man, part coming to part with ouiok
| click, and, when compile ed, the figure sprang
| up, seized u mallet, and, walking uu to The
| gong, struck one blow. This d me- he re-
| turned to the pile and fell to pieces again
| When O'Clock came two arose and did like
wise; and at the hours of noon and midnight
the entire heap sprang up, ana, marching to
| the gong, struck one after another his blow
making twelve in all, then returning fell TO
| pieces AS before.
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN was great admirer OF
| OConnell, and used to relate several anec-
| dotes showing the ready tact of the Irish ad =
vocate in the defense of HIS clients. On one
occasion, in a trial for murder, q W tness had
sworn strongly against the prisoner, whose
! name was james, and had testified hat n ha +
| which had heen picked up near the scene of
| the crime belonged to him. by virtue of
| your oath" SAID Mr.. O'Connell. "are Won sure
| that this Is the same nat - "Ye-.n "D d
| you look at II carefully before you wore be
fore the Coroner that 1t was he prisoners -
II did" NOW. let me see," said Mr.
O'Connell, taking up the hat and examining
! IT carefully on the Inside. He then Spelled
| aloud the name James, siowly-"J-a- m e-s !"
| snow. do you mean those words were in the
hat when you fOundit? ~ lido" AN this
is the anne hat ~ ut H." "Now, NAV II
please your honor" said Mr.. O'Conneil. hold
lug the hat up TO the bench, here is an end
| to The case: there 10 no name whatever in
| ser bed IN the hat" The Judge immedlatelv
dismissed the case.
CLARK MILLS, the soul ptor. used to narrate
how MIR. BToWere. a New York ecuIntor ot